BUT THE BALTIMORE COUNTY POLICE COLLECTED THE MAIL AND TOOK IT TO THE PARKVILLE POST OFFICE. TONIGHT THE COMMISSION INTENDED TO FIGHT ANIMAL ABUSE IS TRYING TO REGAIN ITS FOOTING AFTER KEY MEMBERS RESIGNED IN FRUSTRATION. THE REPORT SPELLED OUT THE CONCERN ABOUT CITY AGENCIES THAT ARE NOT DOING THEIR PART TO ATTACK THE PROBLEM. JAYNE MILLER IS LIVE WITH THE LATEST. THE COMMISSION JUST MET IN SOUTH BALTIMORE. WITH FOLK WITH THE CHAIR OF THE COMMISSION WHO RESIGNED. SHE TALKED ABOUT WHY SHE RESIGNED. SHE SAID THE CITY TRIED TO KEEP QUIET THE CONCERNS THE COMMISSION RAISED. THE ROSTER OF RECENT CASES OF ANIMAL ABUSE IN BALTIMORE READS LIKE THIS. A MIXED BREED DOWN NEARLY STARVED TO DEATH AND WITH OPEN WOUNDS, COMBINED IN A BASEMENT. ISOLATED CASES, NOT AT ALL. IN A REPORT RETAINED LAST WEEK, THE ANTI-ANIMAL ABUSE COMMISSION SAID IN 2012 THERE WERE 4071 CALLS FOR ANIMALS AT RISK, IN DANGER, ABUSED AND NEGLECTED. THAT IS MORE THAN 10 A DAY. BUT THE CITY'S MATT MEAGHAN -- MAKES IT LOOK LIKE HARDLY ANY AT ALL. CAROLINE GRIEVANT CHAIRED THE ANTI-ANIMAL ABUSE COMMISSION IN 2009 BUT RESIGNED LAST WEEK. THE FINAL STRAW, THE CITY HALL DECISION NOT TO MAKE PUBLIC THE COMMISSION'S 2012 REPORT. WHEN CITY HALL DID NOT PUT THE REPORT ON THE WEBSITE AND TOLD ME THEY DID NOT ENDORSE IT, I DID NOT HAVE CONFIDENCE THAT WE WOULD BE ABLE TO FIX THE PROBLEM. THE COMMISSION HELD ITS REGULAR MEETING THIS AFTERNOON, - FOUR OTHER MEMBERS WHO RESIGNED. CITY OFFICIALS REFUSED TO TALK ABOUT THE TROUBLES OUTLINED IN THE REPORT. CAROLINE GRIFFIN SAID A GOOD START IS TO MOVE ANIMAL CONTROL OUT OF THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. IT MAY BE THAT IT SHOULD BE REASSIGNED TO A LAW-ENFORCEMENT AGENCY, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OR THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT TO REQUEST NEW MEMBERS TO THE COMMISSION WILL BE NAMED BY THE

Nearly 40 years after receiving a life sentence for his role in the largest mass abduction in U.S. history, James Schoenfeld -- one of the three infamous Chowchilla school bus kidnappers -- will walk out of a California prison this week a free man.